Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Gortalough, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gortalough
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured
- Coordinates
- 53.22275, -8.36371
- SMR number
- GA099-093----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In gently undulating grassland. This subcircular rath (32m E-W; 30.3m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Mature trees are growing along the inner bank. A field boundary clips the fosse from N to NE. The outer bank survives from SE through S to NW. A causewayed entrance gap at ESE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.